Is Nigel Farage Bailing Out The EU One Fine At A Time?

Back in 2010, everyone's favorite truthsayer in Europe - MEP Nigel Farage - opined on who exactly was Herman Van Rompuy - the new EU President. Claiming HvR's charisma approached that of a damp rag, we noted at the time that this was indeed slanderous to all the hard-working damp-rags out there. Well, given the EU's need for cash - by any route possible - it seems they have chosen to start building a mountain of fines. As AP reports, the EU parliament fined Nigel EUR2980 for his self-expression.

BRUSSELS (AP) — How much does it cost to tell the one of the EU's top officials he has "the charisma of a damp rag?" About €3,000, or close to $4,000, as a European member of Parliament has discovered.

In 2010, Nigel Farage, an anti-European Union member of the EU Parliament, rose following a speech by Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council. As Van Rompuy listened, Farage, a Briton, added that the former Belgian prime minister came from "pretty much a non-country."

The Parliament docked Farage €2,980 — 10 days' expenses. Farage appealed to the European Court of Justice. It ruled this month that he filed his appeal too late and would also have to pay Parliament's legal expenses.

Spot on. Nigel Faradage is a City-of-London creature with but one mission: To attack the enemies of her Majesty's beloved Zimbabwe-in-the-sea (I am loving it!). There is no country as indebted and economically doomed in the western hemisphere as the UK with its overleveraged banking-"industry". Look at the mess they created on this planet. I'd like to hear from Mr. Faraday about how he likes the fact that MFG customers got fucked with rehypothecation schemes exploiting banker-centered UK-legislation. Assange is being watched 24x7x365 while russian mafia oligarchs enjoy their parasitic lifes in the city safe from russian extradition requests. The european "integration process" is a mess and as much as I detest bureaucrats worshiping the city-of-londonstan calf Faradic as an incarnation of freedom and liberty is downright idotic.

This may all be true, but Nigel does what he does quite well. These assholes in Brussels deserve to have their noses rubbed in it. The Brits problems certainly don't improve by making decisions makers evel less local.

And, even then...

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” -- H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

I trust "your Europe" includes Portugal, Italy, Eire, Spain, Greece, France - all of whom seem to have problems ENTIRELY CAUSED BY YOUR DETERMINATION TO HAVE THE EUROZONE - "lets bundle-up different speed economies into one Big Happy Family and see what happens!"

Farage is a Eurosceptic. Farage and others were against EMU

Seems Farage and others were right, doesn't it.

As to the Zimbabwe in the North Sea taunt - exactly what has YOUR "European Superhero" Mario Draghi recently agreed to?? Seems like the EU is going to be a FAR better example of "Fiscal Prudence" doesn't it - just waiting for the "entitled set" to start rioting in France, Spain, Italy (already under way nicely in Greece don't you know!)

I thought the truth was that the degree of someone's 'charisma' is entirely subject to a different individual's opinion of that person, and not a matter of fact; unlike the clear cut definitions of words like 'liar', 'thief', or 'unclefucker'.

The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.

On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary injunction she issued in May that bars the federal government from abiding by the indefinite detention provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or NDAA. Judge Forrest ruled that a clause that gives the government the power to arrest US citizens suspected of maintaining alliances with terrorists and hold them without due process violated the Constitution and that the White House would be stripped of that ability immediately.

Only hours after Judge Forrest issued last week’s ruling, the Obama administration threatened to appeal the decision, and on Monday morning they followed through.

At around 9 a.m. Monday, September 17, the White House filed an emergency stay in federal appeals court in an effort to have the Second Circuit strip away Judge Forrest’s ruling from the week earlier.